Miley Cyrus dishes on her Bangerz tour

Wrecking Ball singer hits Vancouver on February 14

Miley Cyrus attends Miley Cyrus' Official Album Release Party for "Bangerz" at The General on October 8, 2013 in New York City.

Photograph by: Jamie McCarthy

To promote her Bangerz tour, Miley Cyrus agreed to do a half-hour teleconference interview with a number of reporters in mid-January.

There were many questions we would have liked to ask: Topics such as how Cyrus has gone about reshaping her image as she moves on from her days as a Disney darling starring in Hannah Montana to being an adult, how she feels about the controversies she’s generated with her racy video for her song Wrecking Ball and the suggestive antics that were part of her controversial performance on MTV’s Video Music Awards, and how the music she is making now differs from what she did earlier in her career.

But reporters were instructed to limit questions to the Bangerz tour. Writers were required to submit questions via a website before and during the 30-minute teleconference, and Cyrus’ publicist selected which questions were presented to her.

Here are highlights from what Cyrus had to say during the teleconference:

Q: What was your goal when it came to creating this tour?

A: You know, for me I think it was, I make my albums to be able to travel and to be able to go on the road. That’s really what I love to do more than anything. And I think the best part is I haven’t really gotten to go out (on tour) with this album yet and I haven’t seen my fans kind of sing along to my songs. So I just want to make it something that is really fun. And like with everything I do, I don’t want there to be anything about (the show) that’s unoriginal or seems fake in any way. So the whole thing is really, it’s got a good energy about it. And my goal was really to keep it really fun. For me I think the best thing for an artist is to see people sing along to your songs, and also to have people participating in your show.

Sometimes that’s hard. There are just people in the front row with their cellphones in front of their face and not really getting involved. And this show is a really hard show to not want to get up and be involved, like set your phone down and actually dance and be a part of the show a little bit. So it’s very interactive for my fans.

I’m not a person who, I don’t have a hard time making kind of fun of myself. So the whole thing is kind of even making (fun of) the way people kind of perceive me, doing that even more and making kind of a character of myself. And it’s been really fun to do that.

Q: Will you repeat any elements from some of your popular TV appearances or do you prefer to not repeat yourself?

A: That’s why I called it the ‘Bangerz’ tour because I didn’t want there to be too much expectation for me to have to do anything really that I wasn’t ever feeling. So really, the whole tour is from my new album, ‘Bangerz.’ I know there are a few songs that are from my last album. So really it’s a lot of just my ‘Bangerz’ music and a lot of covers, and then of course, doing some of my (earlier) hits, too.

Q: If you’re comfortable with it, can you describe your tour bus? What’s inside, any specific decorations or snacks or anything that goes on in the tour bus?

A: Well, my tour bus, I haven’t actually gotten to be on a bus in awhile. Last time I went, I think we were travelling around like at Christmas time. And I had decked it all out. I had like a hot pink Christmas tree and all of that sh**. But this time I’m bringing a few friends on the road because I got kind of like lonely when I was there last time. So all of us, we’re definitely going to each of us design our bunks. But me and my best friend, we call each other dolls, so we want to make our bus look like a doll house of some sort, like a Barbie doll house. So I have a feeling it’s going to make like every dude want to puke. It’s going to be super pink, pinked out and I definitely am like, when I’m working out, if I’m working out while I’m on tour, I actually eat a lot of junk food so I don’t just wither away. So I get to eat like lots of cookies and stuff. But right now I’m on this health kick because I’ve got to get ready for tour, but then once I get on the bus, I definitely, those 30-hour drives, I’m going to eat some cookies.

A: Kind of the stuff that I’m really excited about, for one, our show is completely live. So it’s hard to do as many stunts as, like I got to do on other tours because I’m really focused on like people being as excited about me as a singer than kind of me for what I did to shock people. I want people to walk around being like OK, she did some things that were crazy, but at the end of the day, it was really about her voice. So I really want to stay focused on that, so there’s not too much going around. But I definitely have some crazy props to enter and exit on. That’s all I really want to tell you. But I think that’s probably my most exciting part. So I’m really excited for the intro. And exiting is pretty amazing, too.

Q: We only have time to wrap up. Is there anything you would like to tell the journalists about the tour that maybe we haven’t covered here and how excited you are to go out on the road?

A: I’m just thankful for the people that have really like (decided) to come to my show because I know sometimes people, they like to make me seem like I’m one thing, and all that I know how to do is like shock people and that’s kind of my only purpose in the industry. That isn’t what it is. What my show (is), and what I think girls see kind of through, is there’s an energy and there’s a feminist energy there, and if people enjoy taking a chance and coming to a show that’s a little bit different, I really appreciate that. I’m excited for the people that, they want to express kind of like freedom, and they can relate to my music because of that. And I think a lot of my fans, I think that’s why we’re kind of so close because when they look at me and they feel like can be really like truly who they are, and I hope my fans are kind of inspired by my show to take that to the next level.

It’s just (about) being true to who you are and what makes you feel good, and I think there’s something good for girls, especially, that get to come see this show. I’ve made that really important in what we’re building, me and (creative director) Diane (Martel) together.

It’s just a show that builds up every type of human being on the planet, and a real show that, we put a lot of love into it. I just believe it has a good energy about it.

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